Printing-press



. Patented Maypza, |899.

No. 625,572. i

c. G. LANIER.

PRINTING PRESS.

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CAMILLUS G. 'LANIER, F-WINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

PRINTING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,572, dated May 23, 1899.

Application met December 13,1897.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAMrLLUs G. LANIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winston, in the county of Forsyth and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsinPrinting-Presses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in printing-presses, more particularly to appliances for throwing oif or removing the inkingrolls from the form or type.

It has for its object, among other things, to throwr off or remove the inking-rolls, while the press is in motion, from the form or type and to do this simultaneously with the throwing oft' the form or type and by the same movement or manipulation required to effect the latter, all in a simple expeditious manner.

The invention consists, primarily, of a throw-olf device arranged and adapted to engage the inking-rolls and distance and remove them from the form or type and of the details of construction and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a Chandler & Price Gordon printing-press, showing the application of my invention thereto'in the preferred form of its embodiment. Fig. 2 is a view at right angles thereto, portions being broken away. Fig. 3 is a detail section thereof.

While I have shown my invention in connection with the particular type of printingpresses above named, only, however, as one form of its embodiment, this will not be understood as in any way restricting its application to such class of machines, as it maybe applied to various types of machines.

Latitude will be allowed herein as to matters of detail, as the same may be varied without involving the principles or spirit of my invention.

A refers to one side of the bed, which carries the form or type, and B to the back shaft of a printing-press of the character above Serial Np. 661.705. (No model.)

referred to, which are so well understood as to need no further explanation herein:

C is a slide or plate, of which two are used in practice, arranged upon the sides of the bedthe outside thereof-the same being adapted to slide toward and away from the plane of the movement of the inking-rolls (not shown) over the face of the bed. The slides C are provided with horizontal slots a, adapted to receive flanged guides or projections d on the sides of the bed Ato guide and limit the movement of said slides. These slides are pro'- vided on the outside with central preferably cylindric projections or studs d, and with these studs are adapted to engage hook-end ed bars or arms D, suitably strapped to eccentrics E, carried by the back shaft B, having additional eccentrics embraced by the bed A and adapted to throw off the form or type, as' usual in this class of presses. The bars or arms D are connected by pitmen or rods c to the cranks of a crank-shaft d, suitably.

journaled in the bed A, said shaft having a hand-lever e fixed thereto for actuating said shaft, whereby as said lever is moved into one position, as readily determined by the judgment, the studs or projections b will be engaged by the hooked ends ofsaid bars and the slides C moved simultaneously with the throwing off the form or type outward into the fullline position of Fig. l beyond the form or type in the plane of the movement of the inking-rolls, and thus remove or throw off the inking-rolls. Thus also this operation is permitted without stopping the movement of the press, and also the throwing-off operation of the inking-rolls with that of the form or type is effected by the same movement or manipulation of the hand-lever by means of which the throwing-0E mechanism of the bed with the form or type is actuated. The reverse movement of the hand-lever e will effect the disengagement of the bars or arms D from the projections or studs b, when by the movement l of the inking-rolls in contact with the slides C the latter will be moved inward to the dotted-line position indicated in Fig. l out of the path of said inking-rolls, permitting their contact with the form or type when it is not' de- TOO sired to throw off the inking-rolls simultaneously with the form or type.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a printing-press, the combination of the form or type throw-off device, the ink-rolithroW-o device, the pitnian actuated by an eccentric on the back shaft of said form or type throw-off device, and the lever, with its connections, adapted to engage and disengage said pitinan from said ink-roil-throW-oii device, substantially as set forth.

2. In a printingpress,the combination,vvitl1 the bed carrying the form or type, of the throw-o device or slide arranged upon the side of said bed, the back shaft, the hookended bar suitably strapped to an eccentric on said back shaft, ahand-iever and crankshaft having pitman or rod connection with Y said bar, said slide or throw-off device having a projection or stud adapted to be engaged by said bar, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses. 

